NHS to expand opt-out HIV and hepatitis testing

found 2025 › Feb › 15 (Sat) @ 09:30 UTC

a story from BBC › BBC News

The NHS will automatically test patients for HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C unless they opt out at 90 hospitals.

‘Disruptive, unfair and cruel’: jobs lost and treatment stopped as USAid freeze hits HIV care in Zimbabwe

found 2025 › Feb › 14 (Fri) @ 17:08 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Clinics have been forced to close as halt in funding impacts country’s donor-dependent health sector

Chiedza Makura only learned she had been dismissed from her nursing job when a WhatsApp message cam…

‘A fight for our lives’: Trump’s USAid freeze is harming millions of women and girls

found 2025 › Feb › 13 (Thu) @ 15:32 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

A 90-day stop-work order means many clinics around the world will shut and vital care will be withheld

International health organizations have warned that Donald Trump’s push to dismantle US foreign …

Keir Starmer becomes first sitting PM to take an HIV test as he bids to remove stigma

found 2025 › Feb › 10 (Mon) @ 10:40 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The PM took an at-home test in Downing Street ahead of HIV Testing Week, which starts today, alongside soul singer Beverley Knight .

As Germany, Italy and Sweden crack down on migrants, we find a squalid tent city outside Calais where 1,500 are waiting with one objective - because every one in Europe now thinks Britain is their best chance

found 2025 › Feb › 08 (Sat) @ 07:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

I meet pitifully thin inmates - the vast majority living here are Sudanese - who crawl out of the tents and beg me for antibiotics and other medicines. Some have tuberculosis, hepatitis B or HIV.

CDC webpages go dark as Trump targets public health information

found 2025 › Feb › 04 (Tue) @ 14:22 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Resources for contraception, gender-affirming care, STIs and HIV flicker in and out of existence or vanish completely

Several federal government websites and databases dedicated to public health have …

Trump has already remade our constitutional order | Moira Donegan

found 2025 › Jan › 31 (Fri) @ 11:32 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Trump’s vision of governance reminds me of nothing so much as the declaration attributed to Louis XIV: “L’Etat, c’est moi”: I am the state

The new Trump administration is busy. In a fury of executive…

Charities reeling from USAid freeze warn of ‘life or death’ effects

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 16:49 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Abrupt order has done ‘serious damage’, say experts, with supply chains halted, HIV clinics struggling to source drugs and refugee camps facing loss of vital services

Clinics in Uganda are scrambling …

‘People are still doing it, but nobody talks about it’: queer collective Duckie break the chemsex taboo

found 2025 › Jan › 27 (Mon) @ 14:26 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The legendary nightlife group known for their groundbreaking nights at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in London are back – and restarting the conversation about the controversial subject

‘It’s sort of a da…

I make £1million a month, am willing to get HIV and pay my ex-husband to work for me: BONNIE BLUE'S shocking first interview since sordid 1,000-men sex stunt - where she tells what really happened and boasts 'this is just a warm-up'

found 2025 › Jan › 25 (Sat) @ 22:33 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

'My number is about 1,700 now,' Bonnie says, matter-of-factly, as if discussing company profit margins. That's a lot of no-strings sex we are talking about.